On October 9, Harvard professor of economics Claudia Goldin was awakened by a phone call from Sweden. In the early hours of the morning, she was informed that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics...
Megan Michaels, Contributor, Social Media Director
• September 11, 2022
After the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on August 7th, one might think that the United States government is living up to the legislation’s purpose of, well, reducing inflation. However, it does...
The Freer Future Fest - a libertarian conference in Nashville which members of the Vanderbilt Libertarians organization helped put on - hosted a debate on Saturday, October 9th, between political Twitch...
With millions of working-class Americans eagerly waiting to see if Biden could follow through on his campaign promise to raise the federal minimum wage, Mar. 5 was in line to become a watershed moment...
On Feb. 16, the Vanderbilt Economics Association invited Louise Sheiner, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings Institute and policy director for the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy,...
Closing borders, restrictions on student visas, and recent arrests of U.S. professors associated with the Thousand Talents Program illustrate the continued downward spiral of U.S.-China relations since...
The packed Flynn auditorium in the Vanderbilt Law School brought together people from across the Vanderbilt community eager to listen to Dr. Duflo speak about her newly released book, Good Economics for Hard Times.
For the past decade, Vanderbilt Campus Dining has been winning awards at an impressive rate, achieving a top 15 ranking for best college food every year since 2013. With 24 different locations on campus...
Ask Vanderbilt students their post-graduation plans and you will typically receive a response consisting of consulting, banking, or engineering. You are far less likely to encounter students who plan to...
No one can reminisce on the most recent Democratic presidential primary race without recalling Bernie Sanders’ repeated cries about the “millionaires and billionaires” who hold all the power and...
In the days before the 2014 State of the Union, the internet exploded with speculation over what Obama would cover in his address. One hot button topic was the expected use of executive orders to further...
David M. Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States from 1998 to 2008, stopped by campus this week to talk about the U.S. debt. His talk follows on the tails of The Can Kick Back’s college...
